Ghostbusters (1984)
Average Rating: 7.8/10
Reviews Counted: 53
Fresh: 51 | Rotten: 2
An infectiously fun blend of special effects and comedy, with Bill Murray's hilarious deadpan performance leading a cast of great comic turns.
Average Rating: 6.5/10
Critic Reviews: 6
Fresh: 4 | Rotten: 2
An infectiously fun blend of special effects and comedy, with Bill Murray's hilarious deadpan performance leading a cast of great comic turns.
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Movie Info
Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Harold Ramis and Ernie Hudson star as a quartet of Manhattan-based "paranormal investigators". When their government grants run out, the former three go into business as The Ghostbusters, later hiring Hudson on. Armed with electronic paraphernalia, the team is spectacularly successful, ridding The Big Apple of dozens of ghoulies, ghosties and long-legged beasties. Tight-lipped bureaucrat William Atherton regards the Ghostbusters as a bunch of charlatans, but is forced
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Cast
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Bill Murray
Peter Venkman -
Dan Aykroyd
Raymond Stantz -
Sigourney Weaver
Dana Barrett -
Harold Ramis
Egon Spengler -
Ernie Hudson
Winston Zeddmore -
Rick Moranis
Louis Tully/The Key ... -
Annie Potts
Janine Melnitz -
William Atherton
Walter Peck -
David Margulies
Mayor -
Steven Tash
Student -
Slavitza Jovan
Gozer -
Michael Ensign
Hotel Manager -
Alice Drummond
Librarian -
Timothy Carhart
Violinist -
Jordan Charney
Dean Yeager -
Joe Cirillo
Police Captain -
Patty Dworkin
Woman at Party -
Paddi Edwards
Gozer (uncredited) -
Joe Franklin
Himself -
Rhoda Gemignani
Real Estate Woman -
Roger Grimsby
Himself -
Stanley Grover
Reporter -
Kymberly Herrin
Dream Ghost -
Tommy Hollis
Mayor's Aide -
Reginald VelJohnson
Jail Guard -
Casey Kasem
Himself -
Jean Kasem
Tall Woman at Party -
Larry King
Himself -
Ric Mancini
Cop at Apartment -
Norman Matlock
Fire Commissioner -
Tom McDermott
Archbishop -
Eda Reiss Merin
Louis' Neighbor -
Jason Reitman
Birthday party kid -
John Ring
Fire Commissioner -
John Rothman
Library Administrato... -
Murray Rubin
Man at Elevator -
Jennifer Runyon
Jennifer -
Danny Stone
Coachman -
James Hardie
Reporter -
Carol Henry
Reporter -
Sam Moses
Hot Dog Vendor -
Frances E. Nealy
Chambermaid -
Frantz Turner
Reporter -
Ruth Oliver
Library Ghost -
Larry Dilg
Con Edison Man -
Winston May
Businessman Vendor -
Christopher Wynkoop
TV Reporter -
Bill Couch
Stunt Coordinator -
Nancy Kelly
Reporter
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All Critics (53) | Top Critics (6) | Fresh (51) | Rotten (2) | DVD (32)
Whoever thought of having evil's final manifestation take the form of a 100-ft. marshmallow deserves the rational mind's eternal gratitude.
Only intermittently impressive.
Top CriticEssentially a $30 million version of Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy but not at all a bad time, thanks mainly to Bill Murray's incredibly dry line readings and director Ivan Reitman's maintenance of a moderately coherent tone and plotline.
The story of a trio of incompetent 'experts' in the paranormal (Murray, Aykroyd and Ramis), who set up as ghostbusters after they are canned from their college sinecures, is less cynical a construction than it sounds.
Top CriticThis movie is an exception to the general rule that big special effects can wreck a comedy.
There is more attention to special effects than to humor.
Director Ivan Reitman keeps the Aykroyd-Ramis screenplay zipping right along, creating something like Abbott & Costello Meet the Exorcist. Aykroyd and Murray make the perfect summer tonic for raising spirits.
In both the funny and the (mildly) scary moments, the cast does itself proud.
"Ghostbusters" is a fun romp with a couple of comedy's greatest stars at the top of their game.
As funny, spooky and marvellous as ever.
It provoked huge box-office success in 1984 and is still director Ivan Reitman's defining movie.
The leads' chemistry is almost, well, spooky, Dan Aykroyd's nerdy enthusiasm rubbing deliciously against a persona-perfecting turn from Bill Murray - and there's even the odd surprise.
The often dazzling, special effects-driven slapstick tends to overshadow the fact that there are some slyer, more sophisticated laughs on offer in this blockbusting family comedy.
What's not to like?
Paranormal fun for tweens and up; some scares.
A comedy first, a horror film second... but a successful enough hybrid of those things that it would be wrong to try to limit it generically.
The movie's tongue-in-cheek (and pre-subprime) satire of surging capitalist hubris is scarcely mitigated by the necessary fairy-tale ending.
Stuffed with wisecracking, punning and essential deadpanning care of the film's most notable star performer Murray (who has such delivery down as a fine art), the film also packs in a half-decent narrative.
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Fantastic all the way
With his deadpan delivery and snide quips, Murray more than holds his own amid the myriad state-of-the-art special effects.
The perfect marriage of big-budget sci-fi spectacle and character-based comedy schtick.
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- Winston Zeddmore: Ray, when someone asks you if you're a god, you say 'YES'!
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